That Java applet dosen't work with PNG images, so no go without modifications.

Has anyone looked at the Java file from Displayserver? It had support in it for color. In theory, a few modifications (possibly with a raw feed available in /proc), it should work pretty well.

The odd thing is that Sun says 1.30 and higher supports PNG images. Maybe it has to be compiled and run under that version. (I'm running 1.31 here). I don't have all the tools here to recompile it and try, and I'm heading home for my weekend once this call is over.